Fatah

Fatah is a secular and socialist political party in Palestine that has been the leading party in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Founded by Yasser Arafat in 1959 as a political movement and in 1965 as a party, Fatah led a number of militant groups in a terrorist and guerrilla struggle against Israel. The group had a size of 8,000 fighters and 300 politicians by 2016, and it was based out of the West Bank in Ramallah, claiming that the divided city of Jerusalem was their capital. They lost the Gaza Strip to Hamas in 2009.